Bella - 1958 Australian Beetle

OK

Right, beam's bolted on, one hub is on, one alloy is on, just got to bolt the other hub back on and find the other alloy wheel bolts, then get some pics!

Well hurry up then haven't got all day Lucy..

Beam and leaves fitted:


Wheel back on and ready to go down (don't worry, I won't be driving her with only 3 bolts!)


Back down:









She still needs to settle and there's still another 3 teeth left on the adjuster

That looks awesome Lucy....

Cheers Just built up one of my headlights with the eyelid and a shiny new reflector and got the old brittle seal off one of the pop outs and put a shiny new one on that. Pics in a mo.

Yum nice tuckage looks as

Now thats what i like to see....

Ta guys!

I've so far spent 6hrs just restoring this one popout! The old seal was so brittle that it just kept falling apart! So most of the time was spent on getting that seal out (and some in my eye). Then a while polishing it then fitting the new seal and hinge.


Got the other one to do, but the old seal on that doesn't look half as brittle. But one of the screws holding the old hinge in isn't wanting to come out! So it's soaking in oil.

Got one of the headlights built up - shiny!

MOT this week then

I wish

Hit a brick wall again I can't find the wotsits which connect the wires to the headlights - so can't see if I can get them working

So I decided to jack her up so I could get the wings bolted back on... except she's too low to go on the jack and Steve's done his back in so I can't get him to lift her, and I'm not strong enough to push her onto blocks on my own.

So I've decided to build my other headlight up and start on the other popout - which is, thankfully, in much better nick than the other one was. So it's by the radiator softening up

delboy wrote:

MOT this week then

Awesome!

Shamrockez wrote:

So I've decided to build my other headlight up

Scrap that - just dismanted it and found a hole in the glass

Shamrockez wrote:

Shamrockez wrote:

So I've decided to build my other headlight up

Scrap that - just dismanted it and found a hole in the glass

can't you just seal it up seeing as its right on the edge ....


...by the way ...when the frid lost a wheel my mate brought a 3 ton trolly jack that was mega thin for radically lowered cars ......i use a decent jack but 9 times out of ten they don't fit under slammed dubs ......gonna speak to him hext week to find out how much and where .....i'll post up a thread if anyones interested ....would save loads of hastle ......still love the look of bella get it on the road soon ,please

nomates wrote:

can't you just seal it up seeing as its right on the edge ....


...by the way ...when the frid lost a wheel my mate brought a 3 ton trolly jack that was mega thin for radically lowered cars ......i use a decent jack but 9 times out of ten they don't fit under slammed dubs ......gonna speak to him hext week to find out how much and where .....i'll post up a thread if anyones interested ....would save loads of hastle ......still love the look of bella get it on the road soon ,please

I've got a sealy trolly jack and thats pretty low....
You can get the light weight alloy one that are proper low from Costco and a very good price..

You could seal it i reckon and not even know it's been done... It looks like it'll sit behind the chrome

With with? I dunno if it would pass an MOT like that?

You can get the lowered ones at Machine Mart. I would be interested to know what height your mate's one is tho

thecrewkid wrote:

You could seal it i reckon and not even know it's been done... It looks like it'll sit behind the chrome

It sits just outside the chrome

So I decided to rebuild my last popout - thankfully no disasters here!

Oh, and I fitted my new front EMPI bumper bar

Got a few bits done today. Steering is back on and so is one wing and the running board is half bolted on. Found the mising wheel nuts so added more of them lol.

Couldn't fit the shocks cos they were at full travel when they were on - time to invest in some mini shock methinks.

Most things went wrong tho today, and there was a few crossed words... I even mentioned ebay to her she seemed to behave much better after that

Only got one pic - not much to show really! Hopefully she'll look more complete tomorrow - not as half alive as she does at the mo.... then again, she looks a bit like 'night of the living dead' as it is anyway

She looks bloody gorgous i will have to get of my ass one day and come have a look in real life instaed of pics

Thye door's always open and the kettle's always on if you do mate

dubberatlast wrote:

She looks bloody gorgous i will have to get of my ass one day and come have a look in real life instaed of pics

I was thinking the same thing on the way home last night.. Cos they're only round the corner now..

You're all more than welcome to!